Short answer: no. Long answer: When I started Elemental, my goal was to create an environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional funeral model. Living in Seattle, I saw a need for more options that fit into the lifestyle choices that were popular here, as...

Morgan Woroner is the Elemental Social Media Manager. From time to time, she has things to say about the death industry. This is one of those times. For three years I’ve worked with Elemental as a social media manager. Three years. That’s over 1,000 days of tweets and...

This won’t come as a shock to anyone, but funeral arrangements can be extremely hard on grieving family members. Trust me, the number of arguments and battles I have seen waged over last minute funeral arrangements is not small. Many of these arguments involve...

I’ve been working with a family this week that has a very common question that I have yet to dedicate a full blog post to answering. What happens when you don’t want to “burden” your family with the obligation of disposing of your cremated remains? In modern history,...

I’m going to admit it right from the get-go. This post is definitely a pre-emptive explanation of what happened just a few days ago should anything come of it, and it’s also a musing about some of the hearse and funeral home going’s on as of late. Last weekend, my...

I was recently contacted by our local NPR affiliate, KUOW, to answer some questions about cremation scattering and reasons behind the increase in cremation as a method of disposition. The main questions being: can you just scatter anywhere, and who do you need to get...